Recently media, activists and keyboard warriors have cherry-picked examples of controversial police activity to present coppers as enemies of the general public. These examples are usually mobile phone footage of police handling a person where context is missing. In a minority of cases there is a genuine case of police misuse of power. Keyboard warriors then use these small number of cases to make sweeping generalisations about all police.
My father was formerly a long-serving Queensland police officer.
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